Elissa MeitesFrom the Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA Public Health, Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Denver Public Health Department, Denver, COSex Transm Dis 40:865-9. 2013

Chlamydia trachomatis infection among women 26 to 39 years of age in the United States, 1999 to 2010

..The prevalence and characteristics of persons with newly diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections with or without evidence of mutations associated with drug resistance have not been well described...

..In the United States, young people aged 15-24 represent 25% of the sexually experienced population. However, the incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among this age-group are unknown...

HIV seroincidence among patients at clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in nine cities in the United States

Elissa MeitesFrom the Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA Public Health, Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Denver Public Health Department, Denver, COSex Transm Dis 40:865-9. 2013

..The objective of this analysis is to assess testing and screening practices for T. vaginalis among symptomatic and asymptomatic women in the sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic setting...

Chlamydia trachomatis infection among women 26 to 39 years of age in the United States, 1999 to 2010

..Chlamydia prevalence was low overall but varied by sociodemographics and sexual behaviors. Findings support current recommendations that women older than 25 years should not be routinely screened for chlamydial infection...

..Prevalence estimates from population-based surveys do not suffer from the same biases as case-report and clinic positivity data and may be better to monitor sexually transmitted disease morbidity over time...

Eloisa LlataFrom the Surveillance and Data Management Branch, Division of STD Prevention NCCHSTP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA Public Health Seattle and King County and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL and Baltimore City Health Department and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MDSex Transm Dis 42:429-33. 2015

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Analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae azithromycin susceptibility in the United States by the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project, 2005 to 2013

..Neisseria gonorrhoeae has progressively developed resistance to sulfonamides, penicillin, tetracycline and fluoroquinolones, and gonococcal susceptibility to cephalosporins has been declining worldwide...

Primary and secondary syphilis among black and Hispanic men who have sex with men: case report data from 27 States

..Until 2005, national-level data on the sex of sex partners that describe how primary and secondary syphilis affects men who have sex with men (MSM) of different races or ethnicities were not reported...

HIV testing frequency among men who have sex with men attending sexually transmitted disease clinics: implications for HIV prevention and surveillance

..Results highlight the possibility that reliance on a single class of antimicrobial drugs for treating T. vaginalis infections may heighten vulnerability to emergence of resistance. Thus, novel treatment options are needed...

Epidemiology of syphilis among Hispanic women and associations with congenital syphilis, Maricopa county, Arizona

..Despite the existence of a surveillance case definition, congenital syphilis is sometimes classified differently using an algorithm on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's case reporting form...